Etl architect vs software developer

The differences between etl architects and software developers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 2-4 years to become both an etl architect and a software developer. Additionally, an etl architect has an average salary of $105,901, which is higher than the $87,521 average annual salary of a software developer.

The top three skills for an etl architect include data warehouse, microsoft sql server and data architecture. The most important skills for a software developer are java, python, and C++.

Etl architect vs software developer overview

	ETL Architect	Software Developer
Yearly salary	$105,901	$87,521
Hourly rate	$50.91	$42.08
Growth rate	21%	21%
Number of jobs	81,513	294,329
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 69%	Bachelor's Degree, 72%
Average age	39	39
Years of experience	4	4

Etl architect vs software developer salary

Etl architects and software developers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	ETL Architect	Software Developer
Average salary	$105,901	$87,521
Salary range	Between $81,000 And $136,000	Between $67,000 And $113,000
Highest paying City	San Francisco, CA	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	Washington	California
Best paying company	Netflix	The Citadel
Best paying industry	Insurance	Finance

Differences between etl architect and software developer education

There are a few differences between an etl architect and a software developer in terms of educational background:

	ETL Architect	Software Developer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 69%	Bachelor's Degree, 72%
Most common major	Computer Science	Computer Science
Most common college	California State University - Long Beach	Harvard University

Etl architect vs software developer demographics

Here are the differences between etl architects' and software developers' demographics:

	ETL Architect	Software Developer
Average age	39	39
Gender ratio	Male, 82.6% Female, 17.4%	Male, 79.3% Female, 20.7%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 4.1% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 7.8% Asian, 37.5% White, 45.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 4.5% Unknown, 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 8.2% Asian, 29.9% White, 52.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	8%	8%

Differences between etl architect and software developer duties and responsibilities

Etl architect example responsibilities.

Manage and execute various BO reporting projects within organization.
Create a JAVA application to handle the Informatica workflow restart-ability.
Support migration of ETL code from development to QA and then from QA to production.
Perform unit testing, negative testing and then hand over the data to QA team.
Conduct code and performance tuning reviews for AbInitio graphs, UNIX/Perl scripts and PL/SQL store procedures.
Create PL/SQL packages, procedures and functions to implement the business logic and for history fix.

Software developer example responsibilities.

Restructure the project code in repository and use maven to manage project dependencies.
Used JIRA to manage and track the issues report by QA and prioritize and take action base on the severity.
Develop the front-end web page by using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, taking advantage of the frameworks Angular.JS.
Lead team and develop UNIX administrative and maintenance development tasks, supporting customer requirements.
Configure custom PL/SQL database to manage new database objects including triggers, user-define functions and store procedures.
Implement a centralize configuration system for managing application settings, consisting of a desktop application with a WCF backend.

Etl architect vs software developer skills

Common etl architect skills

Data Warehouse, 7%
Microsoft SQL Server, 5%
Data Architecture, 4%
BI, 4%
Data Analysis, 4%
Unix, 4%

Common software developer skills

Java, 11%
Python, 9%
C++, 7%
Software Development, 6%
JavaScript, 5%
Database, 5%